Nature, Society and Culture

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This senior seminar provides a selective overview of major approaches, debates, and interdisciplinary cross-currents shaping environmental sociology. It’s designed to provide a substantive background to undergraduates interested in pursuing a specialization in environmental sociology or related fields. The general goal is to deepen collective understanding of the dynamic interrelationships shaping human societies and the natural environment. We will pursue this goal by considering how sociologists and others have conceptualized society-environment relations and by critically assessing the various approaches developed to examine those relations, their causes, and outcomes.